On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 09:25:46AM +0200, Luc Maisonobe wrote: > Le 20/08/2012 05:51, Sébastien Brisard a écrit : > > Hi, > > the current implementation of Gamma.logGamma(double) fails silently when > > the argument is not strictly positive, returning Double.NaN. > > Previous discussions on this ML show that we all agree (do we?) that > > throwing an exception is preferrable. Since I'm reimplementing this > > function, I propose to change this behaviour. Do you think that would be > > allowed in 3.1? > > Yes, I think this kind of change can be introduced in a minro revision. > > Luc > > > > > I do not think it breaks binary compatibility. Neither does it break the > > contract of this method, since (quite fortunately) its behavior was not > > specified in the Javadoc!
Even if it would, in accordance to a very recent discussion, breaking compatibility for correcting a bug would be a risk worth taking. Best regards, Gilles --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
